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POETIC

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by romantic imagery

Example:

Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

figurative; nonliteral ((used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characteristic of or befitting poetry

Example:

poetic diction

Synonyms:

poetic; poetical

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to poetry

Example:

a poetic romance

Synonyms:

poetic; poetical

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

poetry (literature in metrical form)

Derivation:

poetry (any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of or relating to poets

Example:

poetic insight

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

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